Country size comparison
compared to
Sweden is about 3.7 times bigger than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 274% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (15.5 million fewer people live in Sweden).
This to-scale comparison of
North Korea
vs.
Sweden
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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